We describe the selection of a group of plasmids with potential to form Z-DNA, from libraries of Drosophila hydei nuclear DNA using anti Z-DNA monoclonal (22) or polyclonal (10c) antibodies. The supercoiled closed circular forms of most of the selected recombinant plasmids from the 10c Z-DNA library show affinity to the polyclonal 10c antibody as indicated by DNA binding assays. One of these pl...

We analyse the statistical physics of a two dimensional lattice based gas with long range interactions. The particles interact in a way analogous to Queens on a chess board. The long range nature of the interaction gives the mathematics of the problem a simple geometric structure which simplifies both the analytic and numerical study of the system. We present some analytic calculations for the ...

A new regime of low-temperature heat transfer in suspended nanowires is predicted. It takes place when (i) only "acoustic" phonon modes of the wire are thermally populated and (ii) phonons are subject to the effective elastic scattering. Qualitatively, the main peculiarities of heat transfer originate due to the appearance of the flexural modes with high density of states in the wire phonon spe...

The effect of Mw on the non-isothermal crystallization kinetics of metallocene linear polyethylene (m-PE) was studied using modulated differential scanning calorimetry. Six linear m-PEs of molecular weights in the range 122-934 kg/mol were prepared by gas phase polymerization. The cooling rate was varied in the range 2–20C/min and it has significantly affected the crystallization behavior. The ...

Comparing resistivity data of the quasi-one-dimensional superconductors (TMTSF)2PF6 and (TMTSF)2ClO4 along the least conducting c(⋆)-axis and along the high conductivity a-axis as a function of temperature and pressure, a low temperature regime is observed in which a unique scattering time governs the transport along both directions of these anisotropic conductors. However, the pressure depende...

We report here how artificial, thus erroneous, scaling laws of the dynamical magnetic susceptibility can be obtained when data are not treated carefully. We consider the example of the heavy-fermion system Ce0.925La0.075Ru2Si2 and we explain how different kinds of artificial scaling laws in E/T β can be plotted in a low temperature regime where the dynamical susceptibility is nearly temperature...

The low temperature solution of the exact master equation for an oscillator coupled to a linear passive heat bath is known to give rise to serious divergences. We now show that, even in the high temperature regime, problems also exist, notably the fact that the density matrix is not necessarily positive.

In order to account for low temperature heat propagation phenomena in crystals of sodium fluoride and bismuth, we employ a thermodynamic model for rigid materials involving a vector-field internal state variable. The model is either wavelike or diffusive, depending on the temperature regime considered.